The forest colors in Maria Saal are for that. The operator and parents blame the new Carinthian education and care legislation of children. The citizens of Maria Saal want to continue to fight.
The new Carinthian education and care legislation for children stipulates that parents no longer have to pay for the accommodation of their offspring. Even if you want it. This is exactly what is about the closure of the forest guts in Maria Saal, which was opened 22 years ago as the second kindergarten in Austria.
Until now, private kindergarten has been financed by government financing, financial resources from the municipality and parental contributions – this is now history because the change in the law does not allow parents to cover extra costs. Otherwise the state financing would be omitted, it will be explained on the spot. However, private kindergarten can no longer be financed, because the municipal cash register is now also empty.
“It cannot be that as a parent I cannot decide where I saw my children next to it all would all like to pay more to save the forest colors,” says Christian Pogatschnig, father of two forest children, on Friday at a press conference it organized it Initiative of the parents.
About 200 people were present and discussed the current situation, including Mayor Franz Pfaller (Spö), Vice -mayor Siegfried Obersteiner (ÖVP), member of the State Parliament Josef Krammer (FPö) and spokeswoman Iris Glanzer (Neos). Only one was missing: State Councilor Daniel Fellner. “We invited him, there was not even an answer,” said the parents, who demand a change in the law and thereby demand the freedom of choices in childcare.
Spö mayor: “The KBBG is a false handle”
Not only of freedom, Neos or the representative of the ÖVP community, there was criticism of the law introduced in 2023, even the Spö Mayor reprimanded: “As a community we are also affected. I also complain about my own party. The KBBG is a mistake, ”says Pfaller, in whose community an extension of the public kindergarten is implemented by 2.5 million euros.
Emotions meet
The mood was warmed up, parents and the operator of the Bosklakker, Sabine Dörfler, emotional: “On the one hand, I am overwhelmed by all the support of you, on the other hand I feel that the community did not do that fought enough,” says Dörfler, who says that 16 children provided their private facility, visibly touched.
And what is the following? Pogatschnig announced – if the councilor Daniel Fellner does not change – a meeting of the citizens. Protests also spoke for a short time.
Source: Krone
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